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Country Lofts

Three barns where downtown meets the farm.

Counterintuitive as it may seem,
there is something very urban about
a barn. The wide-open spaces of industrial real estate
find their country equivalent in sheds, stables, and
lean-tos. When the New Jersey Barn Company began
rescuing farm buildings around 1980, its first clients
were New Yorkers with property
in East Hampton. “They saw the opportunity to
create something like
a rural loft,” says co-founder Elric Endersby.
At the same time, the barn offers instant rural
authenticity. “It’s like living outside
under a big roof,” says interior-design
consultant Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of his
family’s 1850s structure on Long Island, which
was trucked out from Princeton—and then rebuilt
peg by peg.